Modern First Editions & Children's Books, Original Illustrations & Artwork, Playing Cards

Crane (Walter). The First of May, A Fairy Masque presented in a series of 52 designs, London: Henry Sotheran & Co, 1881, 56 photogravures (numbere...

Brookes (Warwick). Photographs from Original Sketches, [Manchester?, no publisher], circa 1868, 31 mounted albumen photographs after drawings by t...

Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, London: George Allen, 1894, illustrations by Hugh Thomson, occasional light spotting at front, neat contempora...

Darwin (Bernard & Elinor). The Tale of Mr. Tootleoo; Tootleoo Two, 2 volumes, London: Nonesuch Press, [1925-27], 22 and 20 full-page colour illust...

Defoe (Daniel). The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York Mariner, London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1929, ...

Detmold (Edward, illustrator). The Fables of Aesop, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1909, 25 tipped-in colour plates, light offsetting to endpapers, t...

Dulac (Edmund). Edmund Dulac's Fairy-Book. Fairy Tales of the Allied Nations, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1916[, 15 tipped-in colour plates, endp...

Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). Shakespeare's Comedy of the Tempest, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1908], 40 tipped-in colour plates including frontis...

Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). Stories from Hans Andersen, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911], 28 tipped-in colour plates including frontispiece, li...

Dulac (Edmund, illustrator). The Bells and other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912], 28 tipped-in colour plates includin...

Lang (Andrew). Fairy Books, 5 volumes, 1st editions, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900-1910, Grey 1st US edition, frontispieces, numerous illustratio...

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Leslie (Shane). The Cuckoo Clock and Other Poems, privately printed at the Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1987, hand-coloured illustrations by Iris Leslie...

Meteyard (Sidney, illustrator). The Golden Legend, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1910), mounted colour frontispiece,...

Milne (A.A.) Winnie-the-Pooh, 1st edition, London: Methuen & Co., 1926, illustrations by E.H. Shepard, closed tear to p. 127, some rippling and a ...

Nicholson (William, illustrator). An Almanack of Twelve Sports, words by Rudyard Kipling, London: William Heinemann, 1898, colour title vignette, ...

Pogany (Willy, illustrator). The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan, after the Drama of Richard Wagner by T.W.Rolleston, London: G. G. Harrap, ...

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, London: Frederick Warne, circa 1912, colour illustrations throughout, one leaf with vertical cre...

Potter (Beatrix). The Fairy Caravan, by Beatrix Heelis ("Beatrix Potter"), [privately printed in Ambleside for the author], 1929, colour frontispi...

Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st edition, London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1903, colour illustrations, a few light fin...

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Tom Kitten, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, The Tale of ...

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, 1st edition, 1st issue, London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., 1904, 1st issue with 'muffatee...

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck, 1st edition, London: F. Warne & Co, 1908, half-title, colour frontispiece, colour illustrations,...

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, 1st edition, London: Frederick Warne and Co, 1905, half-title, colour frontispiece, colour illust...

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st trade edition, London: Warne, [1902], early issue with 'wept' for 'shed' on p.51, incorrect colour...

Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st trade edition, London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1902], 'wept' for 'shed' on page 51, colour illustr...

Rackham (Arthur, Illustrated). Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by The Brothers Grimm, London: Constable & Co Ltd, 1917, 12 tipped-i...

Rackham (Arthur, illustrator). The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie, by Richard Wagner, translated by Margaret Armour, London: William Heinemann, 1910, 34...

Richards (J.M. & Ravilious, Eric). High Street, 1st edition, London: Country Life Ltd., 1938, 24 colour lithograph plates, large woodcut vignette ...

Rountree (Harry, illustrator). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York: Thomas Nelson, [1908], ...

Rupert Bear Annuals. Rupert Annuals, Daily Express Publications,1946-49, 1952 & 1956, colour illustrations by Alfred Bestall, one or two small sta...

Sendak (Maurice). Pictures by Maurice Sendak, London: Bodley Head [cover-title], 1971, 19 colour and black & white illustrations on single sheets,...

Smith (Georgina Meyrick Castle, i.e. "Brenda"). A collection of 19 books, including 11 inscribed by the author, mainly to husband Castle Smith and...

Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe by George Eliot, London:MacMillan and Co., 1907, colour frontispiece with tissue-...

Thomson (Hugh, illustrator). The School for Scandal, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1911], 28 tipped-in colour plates ...

Wain (Louis). Pa Cats Ma Cats and their Kittens, London: Raphael Tuck & Sons, [1902], 11 chromolithograph plates, including one double-page, illus...

Wende (Bernhard & Ilse Wende-Lungershausen). Klaus - der Hitlerjunge, Berlin, 1933, 16 pp. with colour illustrations, occasional light soiling, pr...